ShannonXL
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They'd worked out a deal: after Damon lives a full human life the cure will go to Rebekah.
Now it's time to collect.
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Damon, your problematic fave, your cancelled white man, your terminal case of main character syndrome, has been informed he owes some people an apology. This is his notes app confession.
(Set somewhere in season 2 or early season 3.)
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- 177
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- 1/1
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This is hell. It's every torment imaginable (and plenty that aren't). Pain. Grief. Loneliness. She's earned her place in the worst circle of the inferno and Cade is prepared to show her anything but mercy.
Well. She's Katherine frigging' Pierce. Think she's scared of a little fire and brimstone?
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HOBAMA: The greatest love story ever told by ShannonXL
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Historical RPF
04 Jun 2026
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Finally someone brave enough to speak the truth.
(I made a video about Hobama).
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Takes place during S4. Damon and Elena are on their way to New York when she feeds from someone rolling on molly. High on drug blood, Elena starts showing brief glimpses of the humanity she's turned off.
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Shit My Sherlock Does by ShannonXL
Fandom Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
14 Sep 2025
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Sherlock Holmes solves cases, ruffles feathers, and defies expectations. That's the short version.
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- 13,467
- Works:
- 14
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Body of Evidence by ShannonXL
Fandom Black Widow (Comics), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Winter Soldier (Comics)
25 Apr 2016
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"I blew all my covers. I got to go figure out a new one." Natasha's life is an open book, but there are still pages missing. To find out who she was, before the Red Room, she must travel the world and find the chapters that Hydra has hidden.
But her sisters aren't as dead as they once were, there's a copycat program on the loose, and the Winter Soldier might be playing her just like she's playing him. Half-truths are as deadly as bullets.
What's real? Whose orders are she following now? And with the trail of blood decades long behind her... can she ever really be 'good'?- Words:
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Phoenix/Mockingjay by ShannonXL
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
24 Mar 2015
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time to update.
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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- English
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- 28,034
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- 15/15
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- 8
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- 1,370
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- 7,114
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Bookmarked by ShannonXL
19 Jul 2026
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A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, AO3, Original Work
20 Jul 2026
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You've seen it. A fic formatted like a classified document. A chapter that looks like a real social media feed. An interactive game, somehow, inside an AO3 work. You clicked the kudos button. You thought: how.
This is the tutorial that answers that.
A beginner-friendly guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 — no prior coding experience required. By the end of this series, you'll know enough to write formatted fics, build your own workskins, style your entire AO3 interface, and maybe make something that makes other people stop and think how.
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- Part 23 of Izzy's HTML & CSS Experiments
- Part 2 of HTML/CSS AO3 Skins & Tutorials
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- English
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- 43,893
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- 8/?
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- 4
- Comments:
- 194
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- 1,166
- Bookmarks:
- 1,771
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- 36,462
Bookmarked by ShannonXL
19 Jul 2026
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This work will be used to ensure all of the images I use in my fanfics still work. I doubt they'll stop working this time, so it is also just a simple collection of everything in one place.
The first chapter is a tutorial on how to put images into your own works and comments.
Bookmarked by ShannonXL
04 Jul 2026
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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- 1/1
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- 717
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Bookmarked by ShannonXL
31 Dec 2025
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Popup tooltips that work well on both desktop (hover) and mobile (tap open and close). Constrained width, so best for short tooltips or translations for a couple words at the most.
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- Part 1 of Simbeline's Work Skins
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,201
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
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Bookmarked by ShannonXL
05 Apr 2025